War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1983. War memorial. 2 related planning applications.
War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- peeling-marble-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1983
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial, Chapel Street, Slaidburn, BB7 3ES
- OS grid reference
- SD 711 524
- Coordinates
- 53.9669, -2.4407
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial, built after 1918, is a First World War memorial located on Chapel Street in Slaidburn. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar and bronze. The memorial features an octagonal pillar with a moulded base and cap, which stands on an octagonal platform. At the top of the pillar is a cast statue of a soldier holding a rifle. Plaques on the memorial commemorate the dead from Slaidburn, Dunsop, and Newton.
Local climate
War Memorial sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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